Thursday, September 24, 2009

Tarnished Silver Plate Platter

Collections collections.I am falling in love with tarnished silver plate. And I don't know why. This is the first one that I bought at auction. $2.50 and it was mine all mine.It is very very heavy. It is silver plate over solid copper. I cleaned it up--some of the copper is exposed in the center, and as you can see it is quite ornate. I just love it.It took me several months to figure out where it belonged in my house.It has been propped up on a miniature chair on the floor, on the little buffet in the breakfast nook, and in the master bedroom.Then the day before the bridal luncheon, I pulled this ribbon out of a drawer, (the ribbon was tied around a throw I bought) figured out how to tie it around the platter, nailed a tiny nail in the wall (just big enough to hold the platter) and strategically placed it to cover some dings in the sheet rock.Voila!! it looks just perfect in the dinning room.I have bought one more platter, but I need at least one more don't I for a collection? Or more? Lots more....it's a new passion.Oh and sorry about the poor picture quality I took it with my cellphone. I promise I'll get a new memory card for my camera so that the pictures will be better.

What a great way to display! For some reason many of the thrift stores around here price their tarnished silverplate at rediculously astronomical prices. As I WELL KNOW, people won't pay those prices for silverplate. Happy hunting for more!

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I am married to my exact opposite, but I love him with all my heart. We have been married 17 years. I got two children in the deal, who have given me a total of 7 grandchildren. I'm doing this thing backwards. I got the teenagers first, they grew up and married and then I got the babies. We have two puppy girls CiCi and GinGin. They are named after Elvis' women, Priscilla Presley and Ginger Alden. We have two new additions to our family, a baby chihuahua girl--Ann Margaret and a baby chihuahua boy--Fontana. DJ Fontana was Elvis' drummer and of course Ann-Margaret was long time friend of Elvis. They of course have nicknames--TanTan and BitBit...